The SMS spam is largely being done by an outfit called Winred, and you can guess what their political affiliation is and why they consider themselves exempt from the legislation. It's going to be a couple of years before that changes.

The Do Not Call database actually works, but the spam callers are almost exclusively criminal enterprises calling for the purposes of fraud, so... you can guess how much they care about the law.

The last time I checked it was the FCC's job to stop them. I may have to lower their grade from a 'D' to an 'F' if they continue to only ban the companies once or twice a year for taking these calls for money.

I hope normal distros don't start pulling this shit. Have an Atom server circa 2009 that won't even boot if this sort of crap started happening. It's not like you can elect not to update because they stop updating older versions.

Also have a laptop of the same vintage I use regularly... perfectly good hardware even by today's standards. Completely unnecessary, wasteful and pointless in the current environment with absurd hardware pricing. There is no reason they can't just use dispatching to exploit new features as has always been the case.

And capitalists have killed 100's of millions, and that's just the tobacco industry. 7 milion a years, 480,000 American deaths a year
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There's Libertarian Socialist too, though I doubt there's many in America, more of a European thing. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Libertarian socialism is an anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist political current that emphasises self-governance and workers' self-management. It is contrasted from other forms of socialism by its rejection of state ownership and from other forms of libertarianism by its rejection of private property. Broadly defined, it includes schools of both anarchism and Marxism, as well as other tendencies that oppose the state and capitalism.

There are lots of things that could be pointed out like the differences and similarities between the vegetation at Cape Canaveral or the fact that foliage doesn't stop vibrations that propagate through the ground or from line of sight to the launching rocket anyway, or the fact that I've actually been there and you have apparently only looked at pictures, but it's obviously absolutely pointless, so why bother?

I will just reply to your last bit by quoting myself from 4 comments back in the thread:

Soon just half the population of the USA.

[ducking and running]

How do you think these "car rental offices and dispensaries" capture and transfer ID images? Pretty much the same way web sites take a picture of your ID. It's just using a specialized scanner. But otherwise an image upload.

"Use my product or else." - Oligarch

What you said is flat wrong. Sodium is NOT safer than LFP used in nearly all present day power stations and residential ESS. It is not the same as cell phone batteries as you asserted.

Solar panels output DC and are typically run in series strings of hundreds of volts. Most PV panels are rated for series voltages of at least 1000V although residential systems tend to max out at under half that. For balcony in the US I think everyone will keep voltages under 80V per MPPT to align with NEC 690.

The 120V circuits parent was referring to are AC output of power electronics that convert DC from panels for grid/residential service.

Please stop making shit up.

Except they're all lossless compression so no artifacts

Scarcity is what keeps humanity governable. If you have everything you need, who can then tell you what to do? Try telling a homeless bum to stop doing something. Give him a house, two car garage and chicken in the pot and he's at your beck and call.

How will breaking search and the browser off of ads help with giving the customer a better browsing experience? And by customer, I mean advertisers. They need the market-oriented search and browser tracking hooks to capture more consumers. And they need them all to work together seamlessly.